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words, deeming these sufficient, for the present, to 

 prove my method and its results. 



Thus from the phonetic elements tetl {' stone '), 

 ixtli (' face or surface '), pan (' upon '), is obtained, 

 by combination, according to rules of the Nahuatl 

 grammar, the word teixpan, meaning ' publicly.' 



Now, turning to the monolith generally known 

 as the sacrificial stone, I find it to be a law-stone 

 of similar nature, recording the periodical collec- 

 tion of certain tributes paid by subjugated tribes 

 and others whose obligation it was to contribute 

 to the common wealth of Mexico. A symbolic 



THE MEXICAN CALENDAR-STONE. 



In Molina's dictionary the noun teixpanca is trans- 

 lated as ' something evident and manifest to all.' 

 The protruding tongue yields the two elements of 

 the word nenepilquiga (' to mark, note, keep ac- 

 count of '), formed by nenepilli (' tongue ') and 

 quiga (' to go out '). These statements are, of 

 course, almost meaningless to any but Nahuatl 

 students acquainted with the pictographic system. 



frieze around the stone consists of groups, placed 

 at intervals, of flints (tecpatl), with convention- 

 ally carved teeth (tlantli), giving, in combination, 

 the word tecpatlantli. This word occurs in 

 Sahagun's ' Historia ' as the name given to the 

 ' lands of the palace,' and in one of the native 

 works I find designated the four channels into 

 which the produce of these lands was diverted. 



